baldmoney

English

Baldmoney

Alternative forms

maldmoney

Etymology

Apparently a corruption of Latin valdē bona (“very good”) (a plant mentioned in Leonhart Fuchs's Great Herbal). Earliest forms seem to come from an intermediate, unattested French form baudemoine (modern French baudremoine) and by analogy to the plant name agrimony.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːldˌmʌni/

Noun

baldmoney (uncountable)

Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
Gentian

Synonyms

(Meum athamanticum): spignel, spicknel, spiknel, spikenel; meon, meu, meum; bearwort, bear-wort, bear's wort

Translations

meum athamanticum

French: baudremoine (fr) f, fenouil de montagne (fr) m, fenouil des Alpes (fr) m, cerfeuil des Alpes (fr) m, méum (fr) m
German: Bärwurz (de) f
Italian: finocchio delle Alpi m, finocchio alpino m, finocchiella f

References

Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

molybdena

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